Last year, 16+ Labor MPs signed a similar open letter, urging their leader to #RaisetheRate
This year? None of them have said a thing acoss.org.au/a-letter-to-pr…
Labor MPs are missing from this years 'hey you should really increase jobseeker' letter...
#RaiseTheRate
#NobodyDeservesPoverty
If the Albanese govt doesn't #RaiseTheRate of Single Parenting Payment, they are just paying lip service to preventing #VAW .
If they fail to lift #Jobseeker to raise people out of #poverty and the risk of #homelessness , it will confirm they govern for the wealthy. #Budget2024
If #Budget2024 does not #RaiseTheRate and make accessing payments easier for women escaping violence, we'll know the Albanese government was never serious. #VAW #auspol
Mission Australia CEO Sharon Callister GAICD, MBA, BHA, RN joined women leaders calling on the Prime Minister to #RaiseTheRate of income support payments in #Budget2024 to help women seeking safety from family and domestic violence.
'Are you willing to lift the rate of the Single Parenting Payment to ensure women aren't left in poverty?'
Gallagher: 'There's other payments, like the Commonwealth Rent Assistance'
absolutely identical to a Morrison answer
#RaiseTheRate
Rapidly increasing hunger, poverty and homelessness is not 'responsible' government.
A deficient built off the misery of the poor is a neoliberal abomination, it is 'scorched earth austerity', Jim Chalmers MP.
The soup kitchens of new Labor.
#Budget2024 #auspol #RaiseTheRate
Excellent article by Greg Jericho! We must #RaiseTheRate Australian lives experiencing serious systemic disadvantage need that to happen. If we fail to look after our own, we fail absolutely. Anthony Albanese Jim Chalmers MP
Over 550,000 women have been dumped on JobSeeker & related payments
Over 42% of people on JobSeeker have a disability or chronic health condition
We're being starved on the lowest unemployment benefit in the OECD, yet the government is rejecting it's own advice to #RaiseTheRate
There are hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities and illnesses that are not on the DSP or part of the NDIS, Amanda Rishworth MP and you bloody well know that you disingenuous neoliberal arsehat.
#auspol #RaiseTheRate